Psychedelics and chronic pain: For people suffering some of the worst pain in the world, psychedelics offer a lifeline

Here’s another strange and under-studied prospect of psychedelics: a world without severe chronic pain.
For Court Wing, a former martial artist and CrossFit trainer, the most surprising thing about participating in a 2020 clinical trial at NYU for psilocybin and major depressive disorder wasn’t that his depression — which had resisted treatment for over five years — disappeared. It…